Species
- Giant cloud rats – genus Phloeomys
- Phloeomys pallidus (Northern Luzon Slender-tailed Cloud Rat)
- Phloeomys cumingi (Southern Luzon Slender-tailed Cloud Rat)
- Bushy-tailed cloud rats – genus Crateromys
- Crateromys schadenbergi (Giant Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat)
- Crateromys paulus (Ilin Island Cloud Rat) -extinct
- Crateromys australis (Dinagat Island Cloud Rat)
- Crateromys heaneyi (Panay bushy-tailed cloud rat)
- Dwarf cloud rat – genus Carpomys
- Carpomys melanurus (Dwarf Cloud Rat, Short-footed Luzon Tree Rat)
- Carpomys phaeurus (White-bellied Luzon Tree Rat)
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